This video should really be titled "3 Ways to Waste Quarters!"... haha, ohhh, our most expensive film yet at a jaw-dropping 75 cents!
Starring:
Jeffrey Vega
Josh Indech
Andrew Shain
Cinematography:
Ellie Giles
Andrew Shain
Giving the video-making project one last shot with a Wiimote music video, Jeff finally gives up and releases an official statement about the end of the site...
Starring:
Jeffrey Vega
Josh Indech
Cinematography:
Ellie Giles
Exclusive Facebook Version: https://www.facebook.com/juniorvarsityteam/videos/129948005465/
Boy oh boy, where do I even BEGIN?! I guess it's my fault for waiting so long to write a blog post about all the happenings here. Well, long story short: the site is here to stay. But I must admit... the site was really going to tank... I was not afraid to pull the plug. But then something happened: inspirational comments. I must thank you all... for commenting and telling me your thoughts, ideas... everything. You have no idea how good it made me feel. I of course can't forget the many comments I received on Facebook as well, but... these site comments you guys left me... thank you. Thank you so much, I wish I could tell you how much I really appreciate your input. (: I feel as if I was hit with a box of inspiration!! =] (yes, that was my cheesy line to re-use that animated .gif image... HA!)
Since NintendoBoy.com will be around a bit longer (September 17th, 2010... the death date at the earliest... yes, that's right.. I renewed the domain name... haha), I decided to take my site shopping! We stopped by a few stores, but things we bought were new forum games, even more progress on The Rendezvous (you can login to see the portal now), and a pre-order on new comics by Laura! Soo.. exciting things have yet to come... oh, and a new video of course, but I'll get to that soon!! Anyway, as far as the site goes, I didn't stop there. On the About Us page, I added a new section for new visitors to the site and some info on why they should continue to return to the site even if they are not Nintendo fans (cool huh?!)... but wait, there's more... much more! A big project I undertook and is basically finished is an extension of the About Us page, which is the "Amazing People" page! This page is a more updated, detailed page of everyone who has worked on the Nintendo Boy Project... so if you really, REALLY wanted to know more about us, you can now quench your thirst! I've also linked this page to every video on the site, as well as the home page! Yeah, it's that important! OH, and is that a brand new game I see?
Sooo... moving on. I feel like I have so much to say but I'm looking at ways to say it, and in the least amount of words.. I don't want to keep you here too much longer, but there are a few more items I need to address. First off, a video, which is the most important thing of this blog post... ughh, I already feel like this blog post is so unorganized... oh well, I'm already too far into it... haha. ANYWAY, a video. It's called THE END. But it's not really the end, but just a video idea that came from the whole downtime of me almost closing the site... I figure... why not seize that opportunity and just throw out a video to accompany all that craziness? Well it turns out... this may be our best video yet. Not even kidding. I am so pleased with the way it turned out, and I think you will be too! So go check that out (links below) on the site, YouTube, and now.... on Facebook! If you haven't noticed, there's a new link on the sidebar to become a fan of NintendoBoy.com, so go ahead and support the site on facebook and watch and comment on the videos there as well! Soo... I guess that's it for now...? I can't think of much else... except to enjoy the site, its new slash upcoming features, and of course the new video*...! :]
Click here to watch it on YouTube!
With so many options, you have no excuse not to watch this new video... look at the pretty banner on the blog... you can even click the link up there too! LAL. Oh, and don't forget to check out slash update your iTunes podcast.. the new video will be there soon! Anyway, if I missed anything, or you have a question, comment, or anything, as always, please feel free to leave a comment and I'll get back to you. I apologize for how choppy this blog post was... next time I won't wait so long to update so I have less to say... haha! Thanks for hanging around the site... please, enjoy your stay, and the videos... we have cookies! :3
*For some reason, the new video "The End" was flagged by YouTube's automatic Content ID System, saying that I have copyright issues, so the video, soon, may or may not be taken down slash muted... I have filed a dispute claim, and hope to have the matter resolved so your viewing pleasure is not interrupted... just wanted to give you a heads up of the hard time I'm having! D:
EDIT #1 (6:57am): The video was taken down this morning. Working on a back-up plan...
EDIT #2 (6:17pm): Well, after a long, LONG day of frustrating events, one after another, I finally gave in and went back into the editing phase, replaced the offending music, saved it in HD (another 2 hours), and then it is now uploading to YouTube as we speak... hopefully by the time you are reading this, you will have finally watched the video... I'll give you a third and (hopefully) last update when the video is up and stable?! (:
EDIT #3 (7:57pm): Welll.. about 12 hours later (exactly...lol).. the video is up. Thanks for your patience everyone... and to those just joining us... hey.. the video is up... haha!
Written by: jinxsprinkles999
Due to unforseen events and a petition of the fellow nintendoboy followers this site has been brought ack to life. What future awaits our brave, yet clueless, travelers in the void that is the internet. This movement has aroused my philosophical/social science project and I would be honored if you ould jion in on it. please message me on facebook (search joshua indech) and I need to send you all a survey. Jeff is in on the project too and we are getting together tomorrow morning to conference abotu the true future of this site, its followers and the videos. In spite of my lack of dedication i am ashamed to say that I am part of the group that almost NEVER went on. Now I am awakened and now I shall visit here every time I log on to facebook. This is now longer a social network, but a revolution! VIVA LA REVOLUCION (is that how you spell it?)
P.S. I REALLY need to send you all the survey electronically or personally. If youa re uncomfortanble contacting me I will have you contact Jeff and then have you send it to me on the "jinx profile on this site. jeff will idnerstand what I am talking about. It will be called the "New Era Survey" since this survey will keep this site alive. thanks
Written by: Andrew Shain
~Got a funny story from ANY camp with no one to share it with? We all want to hear it!!! Just send in the story to thisonetime@nintendoboy.com with you name (optional) and a picture (also optional) and I will pick the best 5 and post them weekly! (Don't post them In the comments because I will most likely miss them!)~
This one time, at band camp...
... I wore a wedding dress to band rehearsal not realizing that it was a TOTAL mistake. Forget the dress, the MAKEUP was the worst.
-Joshua Indech
... the Euphonium skit was starting to get inappropriate... like Peter Fugate cross-dressing! So G rang the gong to stop the skit 50 times and the Euphoniums refused to stop the skit.
-Michelle C. Parkos
... the year before my last I spent the night before the first rehearsal with instrumnets cleaning my horn, and then after breakfast I accidently left my case open and it fell out when I picked it up and the thrid valve got bent. D'OH!
-Richard Sponholz
... My 8th grade band camp (Encore) a few guys stole my bed and literally hid it in the closet which locked from the inside. I didn't realize this till late after free time. By the time I got my mattress out, I realized they also accidently broken one of the legs of my bed which I then had to pay $54 for.
-Andrew Shain
... someone tried to curl another girl's hair with one of those round brushes right before lights out one night and it got stuck in her hair and the chaperones were up for an extra hour untangling it from her hair.
-Christine 'Steen' Krause
~If you didn't see your story here, don't worry! We have plenty of time to post them, just send them in!~
Written by: Andrew Shain
As most of you know, the Nintendoboy himself was having doubts about his own site. What a relief that Nintendoboy is here to stay. There must be some changes made though, mainly... the users. As users (the people Nintendoboy makes this site for), you have more power on this site than you know. If he doesn't see activity on here he assumes no one will see it, so why bother? Now what are these changes you ask? We all need to be more active on here. That means comment on videos, use the forums, play the gamse, anything the you want on this site. E-mail either Jeffrey or Me and suggest things to do for videos, articles, or other ideas and we'll try to make it happen. If hard for just a handful of people to keep a site going if users rarely use it.
Not sure what to do anymore. This site, oh how much I love it, is dying. No one visits it anymore. I used to have almost around 500 unique visitors a day, now I'm lucky if I have 50. I don't know what's wrong. I try so hard. The Rendezvous... sure, that's my fault. But the forums, the games, everything else... it's just not what it used to be anymore. I mean, even the main part, the videos... I never received a single comment on my site with my latest video. :[ Guys, you have no idea how hard I work on this site and the videos for it, and I hardly ever see any love. So I'm pretty much thinking of deleting the site. Making videos is still up in the air, and even I'm not sure if that's going to remain alive on YouTube. I'm looking at other possible options for other sites. I'm still in a limbo, as I have just lost all hope, but don't want to see the site go down. If you want to have an idea of how bad we really are, the company that I sell advertising on actually yanked my ad box because my traffic was pretty low. Bummer indeed. x.x Leave me a comment with your thoughts... I'm open for ideas or anything you have to say. But for now, I may start digging the grave for The Nintendo Boy Project. :[ I'll hopefully see you again on some other site. Good bye for now... :(
So what's the big thing right now? That's right, Twitter. Whether you want to believe it or not, Twitter, which started it out small, is becoming very popular, and is on it's way to rival facebook. While the two sites are very different, they could very well damage each other in the aspect of social networking. But not in the cases that I will examine today. Twitter... has actually created itself a presence where it integrates into many applications that are already available, and in another neat way to look at it, it's done the same thing with everyone's lives who have used or are using Twitter! I personally love it, and that is why I have brought it to a new level here on my site! (: I have used Twitter... back in the very early days, before it become increasingly popular. And if you have one yourself (and actually use it!), you'll know it's quite addicting in a strange way. I thought I was literally the bomb when I embedded a feed from my twitter onto the site in that little green box, so you guys could pretty much see what I was up to (aka my facebook status...haha). But I thought, why not take it a step further? I recently got the new iPhone 3GS, and the first app I downloaded was Twitterrific, and it is so amazing. Go ahead and get that if you have an iPhone/iPod Touch, I highly recommend it! And so as I continued to integrate the simple "what are you doing?" aspect into my life, from the web, to my iPhone... I discovered a way where I could add it on to my site, and that is Tweetboard, which is now live on the site!
Replacing the old dusty shoutbox that lived in the Sidebar since the beginning, I have now a more robust, up-to-date app to get more discussions and activity on the site. This is Tweetboard, and it is currently in its alpha stage, meaning it's been just been released but no where near ready for large-scale distribution.. think of it as you being the beta-testers for them! Basically, you click that spiffy new tab on the left of any page, and the Tweetboard interface will slide out, letting you engage in discussions using your twitter profile, which quite literally is all the rage right now. So it's up to you. As I continue to streamline the site and tweak to make it as amazing as I can, the Tweetboard app is another exciting addition to the site! Also, I plan to link everyone's twitter who has been involved in the site, so you can follow them! But in the mean time, you can follow me! (; Ha, I kid I kid (but you really can though)! Well, congrats you made it through my rather boring blog post - but hey, I gotta get the word out about Twitter, and its integration with the site! So, go ahead, try it out! Please post your feedback, I need to know what works and what doesn't!
Whew... that was alotta Twitter-related info! Getting back to other news, a new video is in the works where the NintendoBoy crew will encounter a very sticky situation and will "literally" not know what will happen next (hint hint!) and will be out early July, as well as the long-anticipated return of everyone's favorite member adventure game that never actually existed, The Rendezvous!
After such a long hiatus, we realize that we no longer have good ideas anymore. However we try to conjure something up, and manage to bring you 3 videos in 1!
Starring:
Jeffrey Vega
Josh Indech
Andrew Shain
Ellie Giles
And now, to open this blog post, we have words of wisdom from the guy who invented the word "cool," Mr. Josh Indech: "FOR REAL! finally we are going to have anew video. this willl be the best one yet. school is over and we ave time to do this video. For the little amount of fans we have left we hope you enjoy the new NB adventures in HD." Hahaha, ohhhh, you wish I would spell check his blog posts.. but nahhh, that's why we love him! (: Haaa... so anyway, yeah! There is so much truth to those bold words of Josh. We did it. After such a long time with no videos, we made a new video. And ironically enough, the video is about the reason why we haven't had any new content on this site in a while, which gives it the proper name... Hiatus. Such a cool word, no? This is actually an uncommon English word, so let me just give you the definition: "suspension: an interruption in the intensity or amount of something." So... make sense now? :P If you already knew the meaning of the word, then my hat off to you!
Man, was it sure fun to make this one. An oh so satisfying feeling that we finally have under our belt, another video. And this, if you've been watching this blog lately, you will know that this is our first true high definition video. This 5 minute video took 2 hours to save from my Movie Studio Software in HD format, and then another 2 looooooong hours for it to upload to YouTube, as the video is almost a whopping 1 GB! :O But don't fret, iTunes users, the Podcast version of this episode will NOT be that big! Haha, oh geez! *pulls shirt collar nervously*
Hopefully this is the beginning of more to come. Haha, this new video is so random when I really think about. Let me know what you think in the YouTube comments page! Thanks for loving us and stuff! :]